Ninety-five percent of the objects represented by white dots in this computer-generated illustration are human-made debris. Scientists warn that the growing amount of space junk orbiting the Earth threatens the safety of human and robotic space missions.
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As a teacher, I feel like I’m in a Batman movie, constantly being attacked by the Joker and the Penguin, and my Batmobile is now a Benchmark.
With so many skills to teach and learn, so many tasks to master, so many pages to cover, and so little time!
What are we doing?
What have we done?
What are the consequences?
Is this an effective and rational process?
Schools today have become test-taking factories.
Teachers are on the same assembly line.
We are producing human robots.
Today teachers assess and test.
More time needs to be used for skills practice, not just test items to be learned because they are on standardized tests.
Great books and great poetry have been replaced with benchmarks and test questions.
Teachers are no longer teaching.
They have become testers and assessors.
The amount of material that I’m asked to cover makes me think about all of the thousands of space-junk objects circling the Earth.
Standardization can be death to the creative teacher.
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
1 comment:
Cool blog!
I'm a liberal too, but you'd probably hate my blog right now...
He chose Joe Biden? What a fool Obama has turned out to be...
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